August 13, 2010celebrating one year being here
Thanks to the many people that have come by the store just to congratulate us! With Penner & Associates approaching 10 years in business in 2011, we never thought p+a furniture celebrating its 1st year anniversary would garner such attention, and even an article in today's Vancouver Sun ATHOME section by Claudia Kwan. Perhaps surviving one year is an accomplishment in retail!
Our sale ends August 21, so visit our Vancouver store to save on a wide selection of in-stock items and showroom models.
siesta anyone?
Prepare for the most healthy and restful sleep ever! We invite you to visit our store to try the GreenSleep line of natural and organic pocket coil mattresses. The Molena mattress is beautifully made up with the Amenity Fern duvet cover and toss cushions, p+a organic cotton sateen sheets and Crescent Moon alpaca and sheep wool pillows. 15 minute snooze per person only please ;~)
when people we know do impressive stuff
The nice thing about having our own shop, is that we can sell whatever we want, and we're not talking illegal substances or stolen goods...at least not at the moment.
It's so cool to get to a point in life where friends and colleagues do impressive things like co-author books. The newest addition to p+a's burgeoning book collection is "Agricultural Urbanism: Handbook for Building Sustainable Food Systems in 21st Century Cities", by Janine de la Salle and Mark Holland.
Janine de la Salle, Director of Food Systems Planning at HB Lanarc, has recently been awarded the President’s Award for Young Planners by the Canadian Institute of Planners.
July 28, 2010Seeing as p+a's official launch was June 2009, we're celebrating one year being here — at the Flack Block — with a store sale until Saturday August 21, to make room for new products!
Visit our Vancouver store to save on a wide selection of in-stock items and showroom models.
Designers' imprint
Look for a profile on designer, Ulla Clark, of LUprints in House & Home's June Style Files.
Enterprising Seattle designer, Dinah Coops, and her hand silk-screened tableware and linens, are featured in Communication Arts Photography Annual 2010.
Vancouver Magazine recently "asked five of city's most stylish, forward-thinking retailers to pick items they can't live without. Then...curated them into a smart shopping guide for summer". Download Shelley Penner's contribution to 100 Sizzling Best Buys of Summer.
Visit our news section for other recent media coverage.
May 12, 2010heartfelt
Now you can give someone your heart, or rip it out, metaphorically-speaking, with Eva Milinkovic's VENTRICLE vessel. By Tsunami Glassworks in Toronto, the VENTRICLE is available 12", 16" or 22" high. Look for this beautiful specimen in our store in the coming weeks.
"Woodward's ...now a bulwark against the gentrification or touristification juggernaut..."
Hmmm...Perhaps we've piqued your curiosity with this excerpt from Adele Weder's essay, "An Urban Collective", in the new pocketbook, A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Vancouver. Whether you're a Vancouverite or visitor, the guidebook offers a stimulating tour of Vancouver's most notable architecture of the past 15 years. Stop by p+a furniture to pick up your copy of the guidebook ($24.95) en route to the Woodward's Redevelopment and 6 other projects highlighted in the Dowtown Eastside section. All projects are accessible by transit.
p+a furniture targets reducing GHG emissions
p+a furniture and Penner & Associates are working with ClimateSmart to measure greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through a program co-sponsored by Metro Vancouver and the City of Vancouver. In addition to measuring GHGs for our operations, we'll be measuring GHGs related to transportation of the sustainable goods p+a furniture offers. All this is in an effort to reduce GHGs by 25% by 2015 (from 2010 levels).
new designer/architect discount program
Visit us in-store or email p+a to sign-up for our new designer/architect discount program.
March 26, 2010Save 20% on FURNITURE, area rugs, lighting and more
Have you been eyeing something at p+a? Wait no longer as our sale ends March 31!
Shop online or visit our Vancouver store to save 20% on furniture, area rugs and lighting — in-stock items and orders.
We've also just expanded the "F" word sale to virtually everything p+a furniture has in-stock at our Vancouver store. Save 20% on bed sheets, duvet covers and shams, pillows, throws, toss cushions, towels, tableware, decorative glassware, candles, jewelry and handbags.
Star power!
Look for LUprints and featured artist, Janice Wong, in Lucy Hyslop's "New and Notable" article in today's Vancouver Sun Home section.
Our popular Etcetera Goods felt book boxes were in House & Home's Style Files this month.
And, p+a's organic wool blanket was recently sent back east for a photoshoot! Look for the spread in the May issue of House & Home.
February 26, 2010Shop online or visit our Vancouver store to save 20% on FURNITURE, area rugs and lighting — in-stock items and orders.
new arrivals
The CELL bowl and DROP vase pictured above illustrate Toronto's Eva Milinkovics' passion for bright colors and organic, fluid and wonderfully tactile forms.
LUprints collection of hand printed table linens and totes
The LUprints workshop is located in the small mountain town of Pemberton BC. LUprints textiles are manufactured with the utmost care, and attention to the small details that only a handmade product can profess. LUprints' main designer, Ulla Clark, was introduced to Scandinavian textiles at a young age through her Swedish mother. Her memories of the beautiful yet functional textiles, combined with her strong affection for nature, are a constant inspiration for new products and prints.
Visit our online store to order your throw from the Spring 2010 or other collections.
We discovered that when it comes to body care there are many who will settle for nothing less than Pangea Organics. Accordingly, p+a is replenishing and expanding our selection, as well as offering new lower prices!
Heart of Gold is our newest Organic Fair dark chocolate bar. Combining 75% cacao dark chocolate with cranberry, blueberry, matcha, cinnamon and ginger, Heart of Gold is a medal winner for your taste buds!
YUMM :~)
January 22, 2010SNOW ?
Perhaps wishful thinking as we ready to welcome the world to the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics! Snow would be helpful, if only to uphold the world's perception that Canadians live in igloos.
Of late, we've had mysterious calls asking where the snow came from for Penner & Associates' modernist gingerbread house, and whether we'd be willing to sell it!
On that note, typical construction delays (AKA real work) prevented us from finishing the house in December. Now complete, Penner & Associates' design uses alimentary principles of sustainable design, featuring comestible construction, a south-facing glazed wall for passive solar heating, a north wall recessed into the slope of the hill, raised floors with radiant heating, rammed earth retaining walls, and, as the icing on the cake, a green roof.
Find photos and a tell-all client/project profile by Robin McIntosh on Facebook.
We're also excited about the sparkly addition to the neighbourhood, more specifically our block. The "W' atop the Woodward's development was illuminated and set in motion the evening of January 15!
All the best in 2010. Go for Gold!
December 17, 2009Wrap up getting gifts for everyone on your list this weekend! Visit our Vancouver store December 18 to 20 to save up to 40% on all in-stock items. We'll be open until 7 pm Friday to Sunday.
Get what's on your wish list and save up to 35% when you order online. This is in addition to free shipping in Canada for orders over $100, although we cannot guarantee delivery before December 25.
Come in or order early for the greatest selection!
making a list, checking it twice...
gonna find out if sugar and spice...
make a nice rammed retaining wall?
Okay, so not a new spin on Santa Claus is Coming to Town, but an enticement for you to join us this weekend as the Penner & Assoc team builds a modernist gingerbread house...attempting LEED® Cinnamon!
In the Flack Block, we're fortunate to co-habit with some pretty amazing people, organizations and enterprises that have organized many drives this season for those in need.
If you're planning to come by p+a this weekend we encourage you to bring food for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society. We'll also take gently used warm clothing and blankets to contribute to the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver's annual drive.
December 07, 2009zenzulu™ lace
handwoven telephone wire bowls pictured aboveShop in your pajamas
Online sale continues with an array of items now 20% off. Shop online at your convenience and receive free shipping in Canada and free gift wrapping for orders over $100.
Also peruse what's new online and in-store.
Bricks and mortar...we've got gingerbread and icing too!
Don't forget to join us December 18 and 19, as our talented team at Penner & Assoc design and build a modernist gingerbread house. We'll be open until 7 pm both days.
p+a will also be open Sunday December 13 and 20 from noon-5. Enjoy complimentary gift wrapping with purchases.
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November 30, 2009Transformation of the North side of Hastings between Cambie and Abbott is nearing completion! p+a is thrilled to welcome new retailers that will be opening in the Flack Block soon — Bean Around The World Coffees and Ma ai, an asian furniture store.
The Flack Block, Salient Group and p+a furniture were in a recent Globe Real Estate article, Gastown revs up, by Adele Weder.
Gastown's Christmas Shop Hop takes place December 3 from 5-9 pm. Hop up to p+a for some holiday cheer beyond our smiling faces, as p+a will stay open until 9 pm too.
Shop in your pajamas
Shop online at your convenience. Online sale now on at p+a furniture. Order by December 7 and receive:
10% off all in-stock items
+ free shipping in Canada
+ free gift wrapping — hey, we'll even write a personalized gift tagBricks and mortar...we've got gingerbread and icing too!
Join in the fun December 18 and 19, as our talented team at Penner & Assoc design and build a modernist gingerbread house. We'll be open until 7 pm both days.
p+a will also be open Sunday December 6, 13 and 20 from noon-5. Come in any time for an array of gift ideas under $50, $75 and $100, and enjoy complimentary gift wrapping with purchases.
October 28, 2009Come and get felt up at p+a furniture this evening from 5-8 PM! Join us for a special preview of ETCETERA MEDIA + ETCETERA GOODS' simple, yet beautifully-crafted wool felt bags, book boxes, pillows, bowls and coasters. The event will feature local wines and a selection of cheeses from les amis du FROMAGE.
This event marks the start of a 4-day sale with up to 25% off stock items in-store and online, including new inventory.
October 23, 2009If you're into sheep thrills, join us at p+a furniture on Wed Oct 28 from 5-8 PM for a special preview of ETCETERA MEDIA + ETCETERA GOODS' simple, yet beautifully-crafted wool felt bags, book boxes, pillows, bowls and coasters. The event will feature local wines and a selection of cheeses from les amis du FROMAGE.
p+a furniture now on facebook!
Login to facebook and Become a Fan of p+a to receive immediate updates of events, sales and what's new in-store and online.We're receiving an array of new products for the season now and encourage you to visit the store or shop online at your convenience.
Green Sleep Molena pocket coil mattressIn advance of receiving a new model, the showroom mattress is on sale for 25% off.
October 22, 2009what
If you're into sheep thrills, join us Wed Oct 28 from 5-8 PM for a special preview of ETCETERA MEDIA + ETCETERA GOODS' simple, yet beautifully-crafted wool felt bags, book boxes, pillows, bowls and coasters. The event will feature local wines and a selection of cheeses from les amis du FROMAGE.
when
Wed Oct 28 5-8 PM
where
p+a furniture at the Flack Block
who
ETCETERA MEDIA is a Boston-based design studio that was founded in January 2005. Chris Grimley and Kelly Smith, a husband/wife team are collectively architects and interior, graphic, furniture, urban and textile designers.
contact
Shelley Penner 604 255 2049 x5
media@pafurniture.ca
Media kits and high res photographs available at the event and upon request.
September 22, 2009Make your rooms extraordinary with our "make room" sale on now until Oct 10.
Visit our Vancouver store for up to 25% off all in-stock items. Receive 15% off when you order from our standard line-up or order out-of-stock items.
Save up to 20% when you order through the p+a online store. This is in addition to free shipping in Canada for orders over $100.If you entered our draw at IDS West Sept 17-20, where Penner & Associates uncovered the Restore zone of The Green Hotel Room concept, stay tuned! The winner of the p+a centro headboard in FSC certified Eucalyptus will be announced in our next eNews.
September 03, 2009Make your rooms extraordinary with our "make room" sale Sept 5 to Oct 10.
To mark the official launch of the p+a online store, save 10% when you order online. This is in addition to free shipping in Canada for orders over $100.
Visit our Vancouver store for up to 25% off all in-stock items. Receive 15% off when you order from our standard line-up or order out-of-stock items by Sept 26. Get a headstart on your holiday shopping and save big!
Join us at IDS West Sept 17-20 as we uncover the sleep + restore component of Penner & Associates' green hotel room concept. Design Inside The Box, a feature exhibit at IDS West, is presented by the IDIBC and Western Living magazine.
Shelley Penner will be presenting the seminar, The Green Hotel Room: More than Pillow Talk, at IIDEX Neocon Canada in Toronto Sept 25.
Congratulations to our eNews signup winners! Last Spring, Arlene Garnett, JF Williams and Jody Billingsley signed up for the p+a eNews and were randomly selected to receive p+a prizes. Ernesto Gomez of Nuba Restaurant has won our in-store draw for a p+a bamboo cutting board. How fitting! If you're in the Lower Mainland, we encourage you to come by the store to collect your prize. Otherwise, contact us and we'll make arrangements to ship your prize.
Interested in the story of the store? Visit Penner & Associates' website for details including photography by Martin Tessler.
August 11, 2009Challenged as we may be to try to get your attention this summer, we thought showing you a sampling of products in delicious colors might pique your interest! Welcome to the first p+a eNews.
Expand your horizons and enjoy the convenience of researching and shopping online. To celebrate our online store going live, p+a furniture is offering free shipping in Canada for any purchase over $100!
If you're in the mood for window shopping, or shopping with intention, Gastown in Vancouver is the place to seek therapy. Located at the edge of Gastown, p+a furniture is at the gateway of a neighborhood in transition, the downtown eastside. Soon-to-be a thriving arts and culture hub, the Woodward's redevelopment on Hastings Street is creative, diverse and freethinking.
Winners of the eNews sign-up to win will be announced in the September issue, when we officially launch the online store. Also look for the story of the p+a store.
